Publications

10 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Become a Value Creator

asked how he could pay back the favor. Cash put his arm around his colleague's shoulder and said, "You don't owe me anything, Brian. This is the way we do things here. Just pay it forward." “Shareholder View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

Web

Creating Shared Value - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Creating Shared Value CSV Creating Shared Value CSV Explained Emerging Topics CSV in Practice Published CSV Cases Creating Shared Value Capitalism is suffering from a... View Details

13 Apr 2021
News

Face Value

As a teenager in Houston, Texas, and one of the few Asian students in her high school, Vicky Tsai (MBA 2006) recognized that didn’t fit the accepted beauty standard. She was more drawn to the Western luxury skincare brands her mother sold... View Details

2007
Chapter

Microfinance: Business, Profitability, and the Creation of Social Value

By: Michael Chu

The chapter examines the development of microfinance from its NGO origins to the present stage in which it is characterized by regulated commercial institutions capable of superior financial returns. It then looks at the creation of social value under these... View Details

Keywords: Microfinance; Investment Return; Profit; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Social Enterprise; Non-Governmental Organizations; Perspective; Value Creation

2024
Working Paper

The Value of AI Innovations

By: Wilbur Xinyuan Chen, Terrence Tianshuo Shi and Suraj Srinivasan

We study the value of AI innovations as it diffuses across general and application sectors, using the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) AI patent dataset. Investors value these innovations more than others, as AI patents exhibit a 9% value premium,... View Details

Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Valuation; Technological Innovation; Open Source Distribution; Patents; Policy; Knowledge Sharing; Technology Industry

17 May 2019
News

Putting Value on Diversity, Inclusion, and Leadership

people grow into the role of having an impact that you value. I think my legacy will be a legacy of developing people in this field who really want to make a difference and who value diversity View Details

February 2023 (Revised November 2024)
Case

Ronald Reagan: Changing the World

By: Robert Simons and Shirley Sun

This case traces the rise of Ronald Reagan from small town Illinois to two-term president of the United States. An unlikely candidate for the world’s most powerful job, the case describes the different roles that Reagan filled over his life: radio announcer, Hollywood... View Details

Keywords: Politics; Entertainment; Personal Characteristics; Business And Government; Values And Beliefs; Mission And Purpose; Decision Making; Government Administration; Management Style; Power and Influence; United States

Educators

Article

Shareholder Value Maximization and Product Market Competition

By: Julio J. Rotemberg and David S. Scharfstein

July 2020
Article

Intra-firm Geographic Mobility: Value Creation Mechanisms and Future Research Directions

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury

This paper argues that intra-firm geographic mobility is an understudied mechanism that can help mitigate coordination failures in a geographically distributed organization. The paper presents an organizing framework on how intra-firm geographic mobility creates value... View Details

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Employees; Geographic Location; Value Creation

1999
Other Unpublished Work

Value and Reporting in the Insurance Industry

By: Robert G. Eccles Jr. and Michael P. Nelligan

Keywords: Financial Reporting; Insurance Industry

1999
Other Unpublished Work

Value and Reporting in the Banking Industry

By: Robert G. Eccles Jr. and John K. Fletcher

Keywords: Financial Reporting; Banking Industry; Netherlands

Mar 2017
Keynote Speech

Creativity and the Value of Confident Humility

By: Teresa M. Amabile

2016
Other Article

Multinational Firms, Value Chains, and Vertical Integration

By: Laura Alfaro

02 May 2017
Working Paper Summaries

The Cross Section of Bank Value

Keywords: by Mark Egan, Stefan Lewellen, and Adi Sunderam; Banking

March 2004
Article

Values Drive Performance

By: William W. George

Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Performance

Find at Harvard

07 Apr 2014
News

Family Values

year of the MBA Program. Connell, who died in 2001, the same year he received the School’s Alumni Achievement Award, was a longtime leader in Boston’s business and philanthropic communities. Known for his visionary leadership, Connell... View Details

February 2009 (Revised June 2010)
Background Note

Note on Valuing Control and Liquidity in Family and Closely Held Firms

Most companies around the world are family controlled and/or closely held. The need to value these companies routinely arises in practice for a variety of reasons, e.g., to buy out minority shareholders; for gift and estate tax purposes; to tie executive compensation... View Details

Keywords: Family Business; Financial Liquidity; Governance Controls; Valuation

Educators

July 2023 (Revised July 2023)
Background Note

Generative AI Value Chain

By: Andy Wu and Matt Higgins

Generative AI refers to a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that can create new content (e.g., text, image, or audio) in response to a prompt from a user. ChatGPT, Bard, and Claude are examples of text generating AIs, and DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion are... View Details

Keywords: AI; Artificial Intelligence; Model; Hardware; Data Centers; AI and Machine Learning; Applications and Software; Analytics and Data Science; Value

Educators